Sportsbooks usually aren’t in the business of reducing the amount of business they can handle. In the aftermath of Sunday’s federal indictment of Cleveland Guardians pitchers Emmanuel Clase and Luis Ortiz for manipulating microwagers, some sportsbooks are taking proactive steps to stave off a potential reactive goring of the golden goose.

Via David Purdum of ESPN.com, “prominent” sportsbooks will place a nationwide $200 betting limit on baseball wagers based on individual pitches. Such prop bets also will be excluded from the extremely (for the sportsbooks) multi-leg parlays.

The goal is to reduce the incentive for manipulation of the wagers by players.

It’s a simple concept. If the easy money that can be made by rigging such bets is drastically limited, gamblers hoping to acqui

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